Leader: Where do the curious people go?
Academia long gave asylum to awkward geniuses. It is less welcoming now, and scholars and students both feel the loss
Academia long gave asylum to awkward geniuses. It is less welcoming now, and scholars and students both feel the loss
A historian has claimed that the Kremlin may be behind a decision by a Russian publishing house to ditch his latest book, about life under Joseph Stalin.The publisher, Atticus, insisted it made a...
The Contemporary History Handbook
Have you seen that TV programme called Grumpy Old Men ? If not, it consists of showbiz personalities griping about modern life. But what exactly have they got to complain about? They're all rich,...
He didn't convince the electorate but John Major has inspired five biographers to write about him. Brian Brivati asks the latest, Anthony Seldon, why he spent two years writing about the greyest...
Lecturers' strike still on despite talks offer University lecturers have insisted they will strike next week despite a last-ditch attempt by employers to have the action called off. The University...
Brian Brivati calls on academics to sweeten the foul air of politics with refreshing ideas. The first real skirmishes of the 1997 general election have left a nasty taste in my mouth. If this is as...
Blair - Gordon Brown - Off Whitehall
The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century
What is on academics' summer reading lists? Mandy Garner finds passions for anything from Joyce to Just William. You might think that academics would like to get away from it all on holiday and chill...
How Tory Governments Fall - A History of Conservative Politics 1900-1996
Ideas that Shaped Postwar Britain
Politician or professor? Brian Brivati talks to the principal of Mansfield College, about new Labour, the new right and his new job. Two of Thatcher's underclass once sledge-hammered my front door. I...